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Paper Title : Natural Gas Discoveries and Proposed Gas Transport Pipelines in the Mediterranean Basin.

ISSN : 2395-1303
Year of Publication : 2021
10.29126/23951303/IJET-V7I1P2

Authors: Adil ASSAF , Mükerrem ŞAHİN

         


Abstract
- This study tries to highlight the gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean region in addition to the current and proposed energy transmission pipelines, which will draw a map of energy in the region and show what the international conflict is from an energy perspective. A series of massive natural gas discoveries in the Levantine Basin changed the strategies of the Eastern Mediterranean region. Natural gas discoveries are likely to benefit the entire region, whether by meeting domestic gas needs and exporting the surplus from these reserves or through transport pipeline projects and gas liquefaction terminals. All options in the eastern Mediterranean to develop offshore gas reserves remain wide open and depend on political developments, security, and economic conditions that are rapidly developing, and finding approaches such as everyone is winning and not excluding any Party in the region from the benefit of these resources.

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Keywords
Gas Discoveries, Eastern Mediterranean, Gas Transport Pipelines, Economic Peace.